{"id":1853,"date":"2010-09-12T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2010-09-12T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T00:26:27","slug":"ghost-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten days to the Autumnal Equinox, fall weather feels like it has already arrived.\u00a0 It has been rainy and foggy all day.\u00a0 Tomorrow we are supposed to have warmer and drier weather, a good forecast since we intend to paint the exterior of the sunroom tomorrow and Tuesday.\u00a0 Yesterday we spent hours sealing the edges of the siding with many tubes of silicone.<\/p>\n

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Trees on the hilldside across from us are indistinct, shrouded in mist. The fog ebbs and flows around the hillside, and trees emerge, only to disappear again. <\/p><\/div>\n

Local Red Squirrels are actively harvesting cones from conifers.\u00a0 One such squirrel made what it considered a tragic tactical error; he dropped his large prize cone on the deck next to the sunroom door.\u00a0 And then, the unthinkable happened.<\/p>\n

Mishkin hopped onto the windowsill on the window next to the sunroom door.\u00a0 And cat and squirrel were eye-to-eye across the cone.\u00a0 The squirrel yelled at the cat; the cat chirped at the squirrel.\u00a0 The squirrel ducked down on the step below the deck and peeked up over the edge of the deck.\u00a0 OMG the cat was still there!\u00a0 More yelling and more chirping.\u00a0 This situation went on for quite some time, noisily, until the squirrel got brave enough to snatch his cone from the jaws of defeat.\u00a0 He scamped down the sidewalk, tail and cone held high.<\/p>\n

Quiet resumed.\u00a0 Once again, Mishkin had lost face with one of the local rodent populous.<\/p>\n

We were amused.<\/p>\n

I spent the day editing the first eight chapters of my book, and uploading the edited version of chapter 1.\u00a0 My revisions and rewrites are through chapter 3.\u00a0 But who knows, I may re-write again tomorrow. \u00a0 I’m somewhat entertained.\u00a0 We are considering re-activating our own domain website and if so, I’ll post any additional chapters there, along with some pictures of my watercolors and pencil drawings that have been requested be posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten days to the Autumnal Equinox, fall weather feels like it has already arrived.\u00a0 It has been rainy and foggy all day.\u00a0 Tomorrow we are supposed to have warmer and drier weather, a good forecast since we intend to paint the exterior of the sunroom tomorrow and Tuesday.\u00a0 Yesterday we spent hours sealing the edges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}